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That quote about not knowing what was in the law is horribly out of context. It was given while the bill was passing DAILY between the Senate and House, with amendments being added and subtracted by BOTH PARTIES. Just like a bunch if chefs in the kitchen, you have to wait at the dinner table till the food comes out to see what you are gonna get.... Just like software development!

The Feds had to pick up the slack for like 30 states. That means not following just the new FEDERAL rules, but also the state insurance rules for each state, and hundreds of insurance companies. It could be better, but it isn't that bad, there is plenty of time to get everybody insurance by January.

It's not like the government used EA to make their site or anything. Capitalist companies don't do any better for big roll outs when it's their ONLY JOB. Besides, it's not like anybody is doing anything useful except complaining after obstructing and trying to break the process for the last THREE YEARS... this is a GOVERNMENT problem, not a Democrat problem... Too bad we just spent the last month busting the ability to do work I the balls.... But hey, we get the govt we deserve!

There are many quotes in that article, if you care to actually read it:

Broadly speaking, when a telco can pass five to 65 locations for every mile of outside plant, the cost per home ranges between $4,000 and $5,000 per location. When the number of locations drops below five passings per plant mile, costs escalate quickly, up to $19,000 a location.

At densities of about five to 10 locations per linear plant mile, costs were about $5,000 per location.Generally speaking, at densities of 35 locations per plant mile or more, costs dropped below $5,000 a mile.

But others say the cost of fiber plant, even in rural areas, is about $1,100 per location.

Analysis by the International Telecommunications Union has looked at overall fiber to home costs (not just U.S. or North American cases) and come up with cost per home passed ranging from $3,000 to $4,000.

The study by Vantage Point Solutions, an engineering firm based in Mitchell, S.D., estimated costs based on site density, especially measured as “passings per linear plant mile.” Overall costs per location were double in the rural areas – $9,286 compared with $4,438 in the “town” portions of the networks.

Why, you may ask, are all these estimates different? Because the costs are dependent on what factors you include. My estimate was based on labor costs, it might have been low, but it wasn't half of what it should have been, because the situation was more similar to the low end ($3,000) estimates than the high end ones. But as far as the per user cost, $17/month is still probably high because you should be able to get a better rate when you finance than I've used in my estimate (that's highly variable though, so it's probably safer to be conservative).

Believe it or not, I have been paid to make these kind of estimates. And my estimates are usually pretty close to reality. Of course, I'd do a much more in-depth estimate if I were actually looking to build a fiber network.

My job is dull, and it makes me weird.
I feel as though having even the most basic understanding of logic seems to make me completely alienated from the 90% of the world who consists of idiots who write worthless turds of "journalism", or other non-producing careers. Enjoy your meaningless, pathetic, existence, you piece of useless crap journalists. I hope some slashdotter automates your job, tomorrow.

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That's a bit tricky since you need a lot of people to build it and vast amounts of water to cool it. While seawater cooling expands the options that drives up the cost and reduces the life of the secondary (or tertiary) cooling system, so that's why nuclear power stations are sited next to large volumes of fresh water which tends to be where you get a lot of people living.Since I sometimes get people misunderstanding (or pretending to - WTF is it with that trend of "debate" here recently?), I'd better point out that the cooling water passes through a non-radioactive loop and comes out as slightly warmer water with very little of the vast total actually lost to evaporation. So when I say nuclear uses vast amounts of water that means vast amounts passes through - so it's an issue with choosing a site and not a resource consumption issue.The last thing is power distribution. Extending the grid to remote areas is expensive, typically adds a very long new single point of failure and adds extra losses. With HVDC those losses are reduced a great deal but there isn't much of it around yet.

EA Sports' 15-year relationship with PGA Tour cover athlete Tiger Woods has ended. In a post on the company's blog, Vice President and General Manager of Golf Daryl Holt said that the split was a mutual decision and wished Woods continued success. While this isn't on the scale of, say, separating...

Add to the fact that the number of miles of fiber/cable/wiring needed to cover the United States is far greater than that required to cover any single European country. Land costs + material costs have to be a good bit higher.

Granted, I still think we all overpay for the quality of service we actually get, but I don't think it's as straight forward as Europeans try to paint it. Similar arguments for cell coverage.....how many towers does it take to cover England compared to the United States?

The Wall Street Journal has been paywalled since 1997. This is more than two-thirds of the time that the World Wide Web has existed.

I've honestly don't know a single person that even considers them. People just surf away to somewhere else when they encounter one.

Not everyone has that luxury, especially when the only lawful source of a given work is paywalled, or all publishers of a given class of works collude to set up a paywall. See the recent Slashdot story Why Johnny Can't Speak.

Would this include how to travel long distances to a key signing party in the same city as someone with whom you wish to communicate?

No, because that is not even vaguely necessary.

How else do you verify that the person you're communicating with is the person you think you're communicating with, not a man in the middle? Just because you have verified a stranger's identity doesn't mean you trust that someone to verify other strangers' identities.

It used to be that you had to have incredible discipline to do math. Then they invented the calculation. Then they invented the spreadsheet (i.e. Excel... but to the hardcore Lotus 1-2-3 or VisiCalc??).

But today, the mastering the tools and intricacies is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than actually being able to describe the problem.

And like I said, eventually intuitive problem solving applications will emerge and trump programming languages.

I shouldn't have to know the scope of a variable, whether I want to allocate some memory, how many bytes and whether or not I want it static to solve a problem. But today, our computers aren't actually really that fast either. They just seem fast compared to the snail speed ones of the past. But someday....

It's not about "turning every kid into a programmer", it's about exposing them to as many things as possible. This is how they can form opinions on what they want to do with their life, it's how they find hobbies and passions, it's how they learn. The more varied we can get education, the better.

I would settle for people learning some more respect for the blue collar jobs amongst us. I suspect the countries with a higher proportion of "dull weirdos" in relation to "idea guys" will be the more prosperous ones in the future. As the old saying goes, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Idea guys are great, but they're like the 1% inspiration. Too many of them around, and you have the "too many chiefs, not enough indians" problem rather quickly.

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umm.. whoever wrote the submission, "the organization explains its goal is to provide geolocation lookups based on publicly observable cell tower and WiFi access point information"

that's the other way around, actually. not a map to be used to find wifi. but a map to use wifi and cellid to find your location(this can make gps lookups way, way faster, so you can use shittier chips and get location in shittier coverage).

though, I remember a public such project from about 10 years ago in regards of cellid(devices back then didn't have wifi that often as nowadays).

Grade school is what those of us in the U.S. usually call grades 1-6 (sometimes 1-5, 6 somtimes gets mixed into middle school, also know as junior high, usually grades 7-8, with 9-12 being high school).

There are folks out there who learned to read and write at home before grade school, so that's not always a use for grade school for some of us.

Fear not, nobody is going to click to RTFA. Slashdot's readers don't need to read someone's opinion (that is also wrong, of course.) Every reader has his own opinion. Slashdot's value is in discussion on a given subject. If the subject is sufficiently presented in the summary, that's all that is needed for a lively debate.

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With what money? Coal fired plants have to be large due to economies of scale, and the only people likely to put up money for a large project now are in China where they very recently forbade the building of more coal fire plants.It's a pointless argument since no bank on the planet is going to put forward money for nuclear and almost no government is going to touch purely civilian nuclear for a few years. You are comparing two options that are not going to be considered seriously.

Power lines are a slightly larger gauge than telephone wires for one. Right now, there are 3 cables coming to my neighborhood to carry power. I don't think we want to put 250 of them on the pole instead of 3. A few miles down the road, those 3 connect to a substation. I'm rather sure we don't want a dozen substations where one serves now.

I was shocked in 2008 when I read that Sarkozy and Merkel talked to each other about EU policies through SMS. Apparently, both French and German leaders do think that spying does not happen, that cell phones are secure, and are genuinely surprised by what happened.

The only thing Snowden has really revealed was the degree of incompetence of the politicians in my country (France)

There's more than one definition of "dull". Perhaps he doesn't mean "dull" as in "dullard" or a stupid person. Perhaps he means "dull" as in unexciting and uninteresting. Being boring and poorly social is true of some programmers, but it's true of some people in lots of useful professions.

Every day I interact with "tradespeople," beit fabricators, metal spinners, or HVAC specialists. I'm a software engineer by trade. The line between making things and taking credit for their success/failure can be a blessing or a curse for my kind. Let's hope that software engineering continues to be an in-demand skill, especially for those whose projects fail.

I'm having trouble figuring out their interface and what all is available in their double tabbed page layout. My degree in CompSci doesn't seem to be helping, but that makes sense, because before I got lost, I think it said something about credentials and experience being irrelevant.

I think what they are trying to do is design a standard for web competency and then let you "learn anywhere," e.i. let someone else figure out how to teach you these things and then you can come back and use their page creation apps appropriately.

The medieval serf had a much better excuse than "information brokers" and "gatekeepers": stomachs. The "information brokers and gatekeepers" as you call it were following the best science available at the time. They didn't have as much prosperity to allow the luxury of huge numbers (in absolute terms) of researchers and teachers. This meant that the gatekeepers and information brokers didn't have enough time to find out what was wrong with their techniques to make them better—and, by the time they did, then they did and we changed and that's how come the west became modern.

Today's much worse. Conspiracy theories are common knowledge. People who think they're wise generally believe huge numbers of early modern era myths, particularly about how people think and act, and this makes it even harder to correct. And the arrogance of our age is without comparison.

So you're right, future generations will consider as a dark age greater than the medieval period, but you're wrong, it's much much worse than you think.

My Internet provider option since year 2000 (?) has been Bredbandsbolaget.

By ethernet they offer 1 gbps (500-1000 mbps), 250/60 mbps, 260/6-10, 100/60, 100/6-10, 10 (6-10.) Haven't seen the ranges previously, guess that may be a regulation thing or just to not disappoint people. But yeah, 10, 100, 250 or 1000 mbps with an option to pick whatever you want faster upload or not to.

However almost all apartments in the city I suppose, and I think all (which is likely most) of the ones owned by the company ran by the municipally offer StadsnÃt.

I can get it too and it's a network with no service by default and Ã-BO adds 75 SEK / month to your bill for accessing that network and then you pay whatever content provider you want, there I can pick from:Bredband2, T3, Tele2, Bredbandsbolaget, Bahnhof, AllTele, Tyfon, UniversalTelecom, Telia.And in speeds ranging from 1/1 mbps to 100/100 mbps.

Beyond that there's the DSL options which may be limited and 3G/4G options either with voice or with no voice. The cheap ones at least (which is cheaper than the wired connections) seem to be capped but they are very cheap (I can get no limit on amount but slow speed for my phone for 57 SEK = $8 or so / month and I think the decent speed but limited data amount ones cost in the $12 or so area) and a friend got somewhere around 10 mbps at the location shown above with his phone.

Many phones isn't locked to a provider and you can easily get one which isn't at least and you can order 3G/4G dongle or WiFi access point of course, there's not so many (GSM/3G/4G) network owners in Sweden (I don't know how many) but a rather decent amount of companies selling network access but you got quite a few options there too.

Anyway my options is far from ONE single provider.

Personally I think the fiber everywhere + let someone sell bandwidth in those cables is (was, the future may be wireless) the correct way of going.

There's been plenty of attention paid to the news of the past week or so about the NSA spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. While some still insist this is no big deal, the eventual consequences could be a very big deal. First off, remember that it was just a few months ago that (in the wake of the initial Snowden leaks), the US and Germany had made a silly pledge, which no one believed, that they wouldn't spy on each other. That "agreement" is already being put to the test.

As we discussed last week, the real "casualty" from all of these discussions may actually be that America can't get away with being a massive hypocrite anymore, despite so much of its foreign and domestic policy being built around being able to get away with just that. And, a large part of that is how the US pushes other countries into very questionable trade agreements -- another thing that we've been following for years. And those two things may be on a collision course. For quite some time now, we've been discussing the big trade agreement that the EU and the US are working towards, called TAFTA or TTIP. But one of the lesser noticed points about the revelations of the spying on Merkel is that many people in Germany are saying that negotiations on this agreement should be put on hold:

The chancellor's office is also now considering the possibility that the much-desired trans-Atlantic free trade agreement could fail if the NSA affair isn't properly cleared up. Since the latest revelations came out, some 58 percent of Germans say they support breaking off ongoing talks, while just 28 percent are against it. "We should put the negotiations for a free-trade agreement with the US on ice until the accusations against the NSA have been clarified," says Economy Minister Ilse Aigner, a member of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's Christian Democrats.

There are many reasons why TAFTA/TTIP is looking like a bad deal anyway, having nothing to do with the NSA spying, but if the Snowden docs lead to that agreement being put "on ice" for a while, that seems like another useful outcome.

After you've worked in private companies for a while I am sure you will revise your views. I've worked in both public and private companies and in a place going through a transition from public to private (ironic, since it was originally private power utilities bailed out, taken over and amalgamated by a government), but the worst red tape by far was in a huge multinational private company. The gold watches as gifts, five star accomodation for mistresses and a pile of other things eating up the millions are not about "efficient operations" and if they happened in a government owned org people would be doing hard time instead of it just being written off as the "culture". Watching that shit go on while you are doing unpaid overtime due to "budget constraints" is somewhat annoying, which is why I now work in a place small enough to be full of professionals instead of horse judges now.

Public, private - it doesn't matter - if you let the weasels feed in the dark they will thrive and there's nothing inherently superior about a private company taking over a former role of government. There's actually less incentive to run it as well as a government does.

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You are not even close on this one. Until CU campaign gifts were limited to people, and there were limits on those donations. CU gave a simple way to dismiss donation limits and made bribery perfectly legal. Look how Sarah Palin traveled with her family on millions of dollars of "campaign donations" and didn't even run for an office! It's not free speech and has nothing to do with free speech, it's called bribery!

Lets also look at some historical context. George Washington did not want to be the President. Most back then had no desire to be a Politician, they all had their own things going on and were pretty happy doing their own things. Politics didn't pay well and took lots of time. Term limits were instituted by people that didn't want to be in a public office.

So the changes we have seen are not just that bribery has become legal and that people can legally abuse the donations given. Another issue is that one of the fastest ways to become a millionaire in the USA is to get into political office. Look at what a Senator or Congress Member makes, and what they are given. Travel, Body guards, Housing, transportation, clothing, food, servants (maid/butler/gardener, etc..) and a better salary than the majority of US Citizens make. They can legally use insider information to invest that money and make more money, while you would go to jail for the same thing.

There is lots to fix in the Country right now, term limits should be high on the list. Limiting funding from private corporations and people should be another immediate change. It was not that long ago that gifts by corporations were illegal, period.